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Dennis OConnor

No Pushing, no Shoving. Instead, Nudges in the Right Direction - 1 views

  • Nudges—and the technologies to deliver them—are becoming an increasingly important part of American healthcare. They are being used to keep patients safe, steer doctors and consumers to make more cost-effective decisions, and improve the quality of care.
  • behavioral economics, a field that combines economics with the psychology of making decisions.
  • help guide a stakeholder to a preferred option
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  • Nudging
  • (EHR) makes it relatively easy to use defaults and reminders to guide healthcare decisions.
  • behavioral “design team” embedded in health system
  • “There are opportunities to work through all of these mediums to align nudges with improved medical decision-making,” Patel says.
  • Because nudges can be very powerful, they need to be implemented carefully. “We focus on driving outcomes using national guidelines and evidence-based criteria,”
  • “Well-designed nudges based on clinical evidence make it easier for clinicians to effectively treat patients based on the latest evidence,”
  • In the realm of patient safety, “alarm fatigue” can set in so that safety alerts end up having the opposite of their intended effect
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